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On the CRTs
Sean Fennessey is on shift. “Uncut gems because not just because of the people you know, but mostly because of the people you don't know.”
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549 Nightmare Alley 2021 · Guillermo del Toro
Host watched it four times; first lukewarm, a soft-focused noir, he came around. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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157.5 After Hours 1985 · Martin Scorsese
Categories 'most rewatchable scene': the second diner conversation with Marcy and 'surrender Dorothy'; Marcy's death with the arrow sign; the phone-number bit. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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583 Bright Lights, Big City 1988 · James Bridges
Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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584 Into the Night 1985 · John Landis
Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
By the Counter
Picked by Carter
The films the shows recommend most, across the most shows.
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157.5 After Hours 1985 · Martin Scorsese
Categories 'most rewatchable scene': the second diner conversation with Marcy and 'surrender Dorothy'; Marcy's death with the arrow sign; the phone-number bit. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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500 Long Shot 2019 · Jonathan Levine
Long Shot opened a week after Endgame with two stars over 35, which explains its low turnout. — Chris Ryan, The Big Picture
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501 Ambulance 2022 · Michael Bay
Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. — Chris Ryan, The Big Picture
Directors
Picked by Blank Check with Griffin & David
Directors Blank Check spent a miniseries on, with the films the shows covered. 53 lines the hosts drew between them, mostly theme and contrast.
Martin Scorsese
“I just watched every Marty movie and came away.” — Jamelle Bouie, Blank Check
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151 Raging Bull 1980 · Martin Scorsese
Scorsese reportedly conceived of the Raging Bull ending as a plea: I deserve to make films. The hosts call it a pat on the back and a bold meta statement. — David Krumholtz, Blank Check
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157.5 After Hours 1985 · Martin Scorsese
Categories 'most rewatchable scene': the second diner conversation with Marcy and 'surrender Dorothy'; Marcy's death with the arrow sign; the phone-number bit. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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152 The Color of Money 1986 · Martin Scorsese
Newman was hands-on: he effectively cast it, hired the director, and badgered Richard Price. It's Scorsese's only film to come in under schedule and under budget. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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153 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 · Martin Scorsese
Jamelle's Letterboxd line: fundamentalists hating it makes sense because Christ as all-encompassing love opposes the in-vogue Christ of vengeance. — Jamelle Bouie, Blank Check
Steven Spielberg
“here's like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones inspiring each other.” — Brian Michael Bendis, Blank Check
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132 The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997 · Steven Spielberg
The hosts pitch a five-minute version: Hammond tells Malcolm about the second island over lunch, Malcolm says never go there, the end. — Blank Check
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134 Empire of the Sun 1987 · Steven Spielberg
Lean asked Spielberg to check on the rights, then lost interest and handed the novel to him. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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135 Jurassic Park 1993 · Steven Spielberg
The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. — Blank Check
Peter Weir
“Weir's 1st call was to Mel Gibson, who someone he'd worked with before, who's obviously a giant star” — David Sims, Blank Check
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601 Fearless 1993 · Peter Weir
Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. — David Sims, Blank Check
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602 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 · Peter Weir
David states it is one of his ten favorites and Griffin says he texted it was the best movie ever made; David jokes he should have put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. — David Sims, Blank Check
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603 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 · Peter Weir
Boyd shot Picnic, Last Wave, Gallipoli and Year of Living Dangerously for Weir; he and Weir reunited by chance on an airplane for this film. — Blank Check
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604 Witness 1985 · Peter Weir
Year of Living Dangerously got Weir into Hollywood; Witness is the guarantor of his Hollywood run. — David Sims, Blank Check
Amy Heckerling
“everything about this feels like it was made by one person.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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611 Look Who's Talking 1989 · Amy Heckerling
The scene where the baby gets high from his mom's Demerol, and the speakers note epidurals would be the era-correct treatment. — Hillary Busis, Blank Check
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612 Clueless 1995 · Amy Heckerling
Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. — Amanda Dobbins, The Rewatchables
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613 National Lampoon's European Vacation 1985 · Amy Heckerling
Heckerling had a miserable experience; Chase is said to be hard on collaborators. — Blank Check
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614 Johnny Dangerously 1984 · Amy Heckerling
Heckerling came off two disappointments, Johnny Dangerously and European Vacation, and needed a can't-miss hit. — Blank Check
Bob Fosse
“Get divorced and never fucking get back in the groove again, ever again.” — David Sims, Blank Check
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621 Star 80 1983 · Bob Fosse
Fosse had his location scout break into the real murder house without a permit to recreate the carpet and details. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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622 All That Jazz 1979 · Bob Fosse
Star 80 came about because Fosse had no planned follow-up after surviving the film in which he dies. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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623 Cabaret 1972 · Bob Fosse
Fosse shot Sally Bowles walking onstage in a medium shot from the back, trusting his lead. — Julie Klausner, Blank Check
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624 Lenny 1974 · Bob Fosse
Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice. — Blank Check
David Dobkin
“his filmography is mostly ugly, misjudged comedies that have regressive social politics.” — David Sims, Blank Check
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631 The Judge 2014 · David Dobkin
The shower scene: Downey hoses a soiled Duvall down with a handheld shower head, and the only shot they can't forget is the stained legs and the drain. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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633 Shanghai Knights 2003 · David Dobkin
Dobkin directed Knights, a catastrophe next to the masterpiece Noon. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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634 Wedding Crashers 2005 · David Dobkin
Both open with a wedding; Bill calls it his open-your-movie-with-a-wedding theory. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
David Lynch
“Unfortunately, Star Wars wasn't my cup of tea.” — Blank Check
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162 Wild at Heart 1990 · David Lynch
Dern deserved Oscars for her more adventurous work (Rambling Rose, Wild at Heart, Inland Empire, Jurassic Park). — The Big Picture
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164 The Elephant Man 1980 · David Lynch
Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
Hayao Miyazaki
“how do I maintain the spirit that's in the manga, the purity of it and transfer it to film, which is something that I thought a lot about with the farewell” — Lulu Wang, Blank Check
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411 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 · Hayao Miyazaki
The Neon Genesis Evangelion creator started on this film, animating the God Warrior waking. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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412 The Castle of Cagliostro 1979 · Hayao Miyazaki
Cagliostro was poorly received by fans of the series, then Miyazaki struggled to get another film made, which led to the manga and then this film. — David Sims, Blank Check
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413 Castle in the Sky 1986 · Hayao Miyazaki
Joe Hisashi's first Miyazaki score is described as like his Castle in the Sky score: electronic and pulsating. — David Sims, Blank Check
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414 Princess Mononoke 1997 · Hayao Miyazaki
Unlike Nausicaä, Mononoke has no real villain, so it is hard to strip the Miyazaki out; Nausicaä can be recut into heroes versus villains. — David Sims, Blank Check
Henry Selick
“It does seem like he was pretty unfettered, and that is his best film.” — David Sims, Blank Check
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641 Wendell and Wild 2022 · Henry Selick
Griffin and Ben saw it at the Quad in a nearly empty theater and walked out invigorated about its social commentary. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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642 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 · Henry Selick
Nightmare has one major objective everyone is on; Wendell & Wild is just so much plot. — David Sims, Blank Check
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643 James and the Giant Peach 1996 · Henry Selick
Peach is ranked third over Wendell & Wild because it is more straightforward and rewatchable. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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644 Coraline 2009 · Henry Selick
Coraline was made with Laika hands-off, and it is his best film, so maybe studio notes are not needed. — David Sims, Blank Check
James L. Brooks
“makes huge success in terms of endearment, then broadcast news, which we argue is even better.” — Blank Check
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651 As Good as It Gets 1997 · James L. Brooks
Maya Rudolph appears as a cop in her first film role. — Blank Check
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652 Terms of Endearment 1983 · James L. Brooks
Brooks had already worked with Nicholson on Terms of Endearment, where he won an Oscar. — Blank Check
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653 Broadcast News 1987 · James L. Brooks
Nicholson also pops off in Broadcast News, another Brooks film. — Blank Check
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654 I'll Do Anything 1994 · James L. Brooks
After the disaster of I'll Do Anything, Brooks needed to get his groove back, and As Good as It Gets did it. — Blank Check
Jane Campion
“everyone thought the colors were exaggerated.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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661 An Angel at My Table 1990 · Jane Campion
Dana's favorite shot is an 8 to 9 second silent shot of Janet staring at a piece of chalk as she freezes while teaching. — Dana Stevens, Blank Check
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662 Sweetie 1989 · Jane Campion
Frame approved the adaptation before Sweetie was made; Campion used early festival heat for a weird small comedy first. — David Sims, Blank Check
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663 The Piano 1993 · Jane Campion
Dana thinks the score is overused and imposing, a major problem for her. — Dana Stevens, Blank Check
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664 Bright Star 2009 · Jane Campion
Fox, the lead here, returns in Bright Star as Fanny's mother, which feels deliberate and twins the two films. — David Sims, Blank Check
Joel Coen
“Francis McDormand is married to Joel Cohen and is more involved in the development of these movies” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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211 Fargo 1996 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
An NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco as Marge aired years later; the Coens were not involved. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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212 No Country for Old Men 2007 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Raftery listened to the coin-toss scene with the screen off and found it even more unsettling without the actors' reactions. — Brian Raftery, The Big Picture
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213 Blood Simple 1984 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
The Coens wrote Presnell's character from Texas businessmen they met raising money for Blood Simple. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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214 Miller's Crossing 1990 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Buscemi was hired in Miller's Crossing as someone who can read dialogue fast, and the Coens wrote Fargo's Carl for him. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
John Carpenter
“and Carpenter smiled and said, ah, a romantic.” — Blank Check
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201 Starman 1984 · John Carpenter
The baby in the transformation sequence recalls the unsettling baby in Annette. — David Sims, Blank Check
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202 Escape from New York 1981 · John Carpenter
Bill's lost-at-3am Meatpacking night felt like Escape from New York. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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203 Halloween 1978 · John Carpenter
Pair with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — The Rewatchables.
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204 The Thing 1982 · John Carpenter
Carpenter's rising run ended when his big-budget check flopped, and Christine was the safe follow-up. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
Jonathan Demme
“Jonathan Demi Tully would have been a better Tully.” — Blank Check
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671 Ricki and the Flash 2015 · Jonathan Demme
The bar-band casting problem: Bobby and Lindsey's old dive-bar KJ felt like a real regular; Streep as a bar-band singer never reads as a plausible mediocre singer. — Bobby Finger, Blank Check
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672 Rachel Getting Married 2008 · Jonathan Demme
The dad in Rachel Getting Married, and the kitchen meltdown scene, is amazing but intense in the opposite way. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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673 Stop Making Sense 1984 · Jonathan Demme
Worrell, in Ricki's band, was from Parliament-Funkadelic and sometimes a Talking Heads member in Stop Making Sense. — Blank Check
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674 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 · Jonathan Demme
Demme worked with Streep on The Manchurian Candidate, so they had an existing relationship. — Blank Check
M. Night Shyamalan
“Bob Bellaman is like the ultimate film critics actor.” — David Sims, Blank Check
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681 Lady in the Water 2006 · M. Night Shyamalan
Other kids at Griffin's NYU summer program saw it and came back to the cafeteria yelling snarf, snarf, snarf, mocking the film. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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682 The Village 2004 · M. Night Shyamalan
The Village was the first real backlash, and Lady in the Water is cast as the film that dynamited his career. — Richard Lawson, Blank Check
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683 Signs 2002 · M. Night Shyamalan
Both end abruptly on one image after someone heals a body through prayer or love, with only a token time jump. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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684 Unbreakable 2000 · M. Night Shyamalan
Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. — Blank Check
Park Chan-wook
“He has an HBO series where Robert Downey Jr. plays multiple characters.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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691 Decision to Leave 2022 · Park Chan-wook
Subtitle translator trivia: the Google-translated line bring me the heart of that detective became bring me the head, since English lacks a word for metaphorical heart. — Tatiana Maslany, Blank Check
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692 The Handmaiden 2016 · Park Chan-wook
Decision to Leave is more restrained than The Handmaiden but still has wild camera moves. — David Sims, Blank Check
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694 Stoker 2013 · Park Chan-wook
Stoker was Park's only American film and he took someone else's script; Decision to Leave is the first fully original thing after a run of adaptations. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
Paul Verhoeven
“who is his constant collaborator in the Dutch movies, and not since.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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701 Flesh and Blood 1985 · Paul Verhoeven
The opening is the maximalist first 20 seconds: a tracking shot of mercenaries and a nine-months pregnant beer server. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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704 Spetters 1980 · Paul Verhoeven
Spetters is like his Loveless, about aimless bikers. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
Tim Burton
“Zalek is kind of bringing the artwork of Tim Burton to life.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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711 Planet of the Apes 2001 · Tim Burton
Apes action figures: Griffin owned all of them except Estella Warren; Pericles reportedly had one. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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712 Ed Wood 1994 · Tim Burton
One commenter argued Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns say everything Burton has to say; after that he took what was offered. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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714 Batman Returns 1992 · Tim Burton
Coogler could make his own Batman Returns-style odd, personal sequel. — Blank Check
How they connect
- Martin Scorsese and Paul Verhoeven: Protest against Benedetta was six nuns, showing religious outrage has faded since Last Temptation. “it kind of shows that they just can't be bothered anymore.” — Blank Check
- Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese: Scorsese gave up Schindler's List to Spielberg, who gave him Cape Fear. “which turns into the swap that lands with uh, Spielberg giving him Cape Fear.” — Blank Check
- Martin Scorsese and David Lynch: Like Blue Velvet, it got just a director nomination and no picture nomination; list also includes Mulholland Drive and Short Cuts. “Well, Blue velvet was the same thing.” — Blank Check
- Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg: Raiders is cited as a comeback after the flop 1941; Color of Money is instead a stabilizer rather than a comeback. “Like Raiders of the Lost Arc as a comeback post-1941 is a pure like he bottomed out and then he struck gold as hard as you possibly could.” — Blank Check
- Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg: Scorsese covers scenes with morphing moving master shots, like Spielberg's quick efficient coverage, to stay under schedule. “But he's doing like all this Spielberg, like coverage with camera movement.” — Blank Check
- Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg: Spielberg's lean style forged by 1941 failure is compared with Scorsese compressing his shoot to regain trust. “That's always been a famous, uh, Spielberg thing, that he's so forged in the failure of 1941 that he adopts that style for Raiders” — Blank Check
- Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese: Dunn and Robinson hired Burton after seeing his short Vincent. “So, uh, they they love this script and then they watch Vincent, the Short by Tim Burton.” — Blank Check
- Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese: Burton was originally signed to direct After Hours as his first feature before Scorsese took it. “Now, so now they're packaged. Griffin Dunn is the star, and Tim Burton is the director.” — Blank Check
- Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese: Burton made Frankenweenie partly to prove he could do live action and earn trust for After Hours. “Burton need to prove that he could do live action to help kind of gain trust for after hours.” — Blank Check
- Peter Weir and Martin Scorsese: Scorsese was also offered Witness and refused to go to Pennsylvania/Amish country. “And Marty was kind of like, I'm not going to Pennsylvania.” — Blank Check
- Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese: Pee-wee's Big Adventure was number 3 at the 1985 box office, directed by the man considered for After Hours. “directed by a guy who was considered for directing this film.” — Blank Check
- Peter Weir and Hayao Miyazaki: David's top ten includes Spirited Away, Alien, Master and Commander, A Matter of Life and Death and Chungking Express, the uncovered outliers. “Spirited away. Alien Master Commander. Matter of life and death.” — David Sims, Blank Check
- Peter Weir and Paul Verhoeven: Like RoboCop, this is an episode where a movie means so much to one host the question was whether a guest was needed at all. “Sometimes there is a movie like Robocop, you know, where it's just like, this means so much to one of us.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Peter Weir and John Carpenter: Bridges plays a person one step removed from reality in both films. “both about people who are a little outside of reality, right?” — Blank Check
- Peter Weir and M. Night Shyamalan: Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. “sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident.” — Blank Check
- Peter Weir and John Carpenter: The first thirty minutes of Fearless feel like Starman. “He does feel like Starman.” — Blank Check
- Peter Weir and Steven Spielberg: Fearless lost heat to that year's heavy hitters Schindler's List, The Piano and The Fugitive. “it was the Schindler's list, piano, fugitive.” — Blank Check
- Peter Weir and M. Night Shyamalan: Fearless is not Unbreakable because its protagonist is not literally invulnerable; the world helps him survive. “But you're like, it's not unbreakable where it's like he genuinely cannot be hard.” — Blank Check
- Joel Coen and David Lynch: Fargo is the ultimate Coen film the way Blue Velvet is the best encapsulation of Lynch, not necessarily the favorite. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Joel Coen and Martin Scorsese: The shot of Jerry rehearsing his phone call from the hallway is likened to Taxi Driver's payphone scene. “It's like the fucking taxi driver, uh, payphone scene.” — Blank Check
- Amy Heckerling and Martin Scorsese: Heckerling saw the hit potential but wanted to make something like Mean Streets, not a cute family movie. “I can see how this would be a hit, but I kind of want to do like mean streets.” — Blank Check
- John Carpenter and David Lynch: Starman is political and rooted in reality, an interesting analog for where sci-fi was. “Yeah. But another interesting analog to like where sci-fi filmmaking is at where like carpenter's very political and is very rooted in reality.” — Blank Check
- Park Chan-wook and Paul Verhoeven: The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. “He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Henry Selick and Tim Burton: A host says Burton's name overshadows Selick; people hear Nightmare Before Christmas and assume it is Burton's. “It does really feel like the Burton thing is a shadow.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Tim Burton and Henry Selick: Burton played the calming intermediary on Nightmare and, less so, James and the Giant Peach; Monkeybone had no such figure. “Burton doing that for him to a far lesser degree on the 2nd movie.” — Blank Check
- Henry Selick and Tim Burton: Nightmare Before Christmas brought Burton's artwork to life; Peach got Lane Smith; Coraline Tadahiro Uesugi; Wendell & Wild Pablo Lobato. “Zalek is kind of bringing the artwork of Tim Burton to life.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Henry Selick and Tim Burton: Wendell and Wild are Beetlejuice-like in that the story is really about the human teen (Lydia/Kat) and they are the colorful characters. “They're Beetlejuicy in the movie in that it's like, well, it's really about Lydia.” — David Sims, Blank Check
- Henry Selick and Tim Burton: Unlike Beetlejuice, who is purely malevolent, Wendell and Wild are babes in the wood whose ulterior motive is an amusement park. “Unlike Beetlejuice who like operates from a place of like pure malevolence, right?” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Bob Fosse and Martin Scorsese: Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75. “Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Jane Campion and Peter Weir: The gauzy distance, fades to black and mystery of the childhood chapter recall Picnic at Hanging Rock. “Peter Weir's picnic and Hanging Rock, which I think this movie has something in common with” — Dana Stevens, Blank Check
- John Carpenter and Steven Spielberg: Karen Allen came off Raiders into Starman, two years later. “this is 2 years after Raiders” — Blank Check
- Hayao Miyazaki and Paul Verhoeven: Early in the film it reads as Miyazaki's people-versus-bugs movie, but its ending flips the Starship Troopers propaganda by having the heroine empathize with the bugs. “Like this is his people versus Bugs movie.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Hayao Miyazaki and Paul Verhoeven: Starship Troopers ends with bug-hatred propaganda, whereas Nausicaä realizes the bugs are just trying to survive and approaches them with empathy. “reading the mind of the bug and cheering the fact that they're afraid because it's all about propaganda.” — David Sims, Blank Check
- Hayao Miyazaki and Martin Scorsese: The no-cuts sword story is paired with Scorsese's story of nearly holding Columbia hostage over a recut of Taxi Driver. “Scorsese has that story about the night that he almost had a mental breakdown when Columbia wanted to recut taxi driver” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Hayao Miyazaki and David Lynch: Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod. — David Sims, Blank Check
- Hayao Miyazaki and David Lynch: The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending. “And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune.” — David Sims, Blank Check
- Tim Burton and M. Night Shyamalan: The last time a movie felt this soulless and hard to stay awake through on the show was The Last Airbender. “the last time I remember feeling this way watching a movie forward, this podcast was Last Airbender.” — Blank Check
- Tim Burton and John Carpenter: Hard to find a hero as ineffective as Wahlberg here, outside Big Trouble in Little China where that is the joke. “I was trying to think of, find another, like, hero in an action movie who, that's not, like, Big Trouble, Little China, where that's part of the joke.” — Blank Check
- Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg: The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. “Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie.” — Blank Check
- Paul Verhoeven and Steven Spielberg: Flesh+Blood is a tweener or bridge between two phases of the director's career, as Lost World was for Spielberg. “It's sort of a tweener.” — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
- Paul Verhoeven and Steven Spielberg: Flesh+Blood's opening is a swooping tracking shot, unlike Lincoln's quick-cut mud-fight opening. “you compare this to the opening of Lincoln, which is like, here are these men in the mud and you see them stomping each other” — Blank Check
- David Dobkin and Joel Coen: Recent Best Picture winners like The Artist, The Hurt Locker, and No Country are not like The Judge, which is the old kind of Oscar bait. — David Sims, Blank Check
- Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter: Bill's lost-at-3am Meatpacking night felt like Escape from New York. “oh, it becomes escape from New York.” — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
- Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter: Bill compares the interrupted never-finished story to Loomis and the undertaker in Halloween. “Loomis is looking for Myris's grave, and the undertaker is telling this long story.” — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
- Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese: Burton was originally set to direct but stepped aside when Scorsese wanted it. “This was originally supposed to be directed by Tim Burton.” — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
- Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton: Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
- Martin Scorsese and Joel Coen: Seeing something that is exactly what you want, like this cast or No Country, can feel weirdly unsatisfying. “I had it too when I saw No Country for Old Men because I love that book so much.” — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
- Martin Scorsese and Joel Coen: No Country is note perfect but he has watched it far fewer times than The Departed, because flawed movies leave room to check out and ask questions. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
- Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese: Catch Me If You Can is offered as runner-up to Wolf for best Leo performance of the century. “I wanted to come back to it as like, to me, this is maybe the runner-up to Wolf of Wall Street.” — The Big Picture
- Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese: Catch Me has the daddy-issues backstory that Wolf pointedly omits. “It does have some of the trappings of explaining why someone is the way that they are that we're talking about that you don't necessarily have to do.” — The Big Picture
- Jane Campion and Martin Scorsese: Streamer films reach boutique labels: Power of the Dog went to Criterion right away. “Like the power of the dog going to the criterion collection right away is interesting.” — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
- Martin Scorsese and Joel Coen: Last nihilistic Best Picture winner, offered as the comparison for how unlikely this one is to win. “when was the last time a movie that was this nihilistic one best picture? Is it is it no country for old men?” — The Big Picture
- Park Chan-wook and Paul Verhoeven: Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. “I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir.” — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
Special Features
Picked by Blank Check with Griffin & David
The films Blank Check watched with the mic on, in order.
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503 The Incredible Hulk 2008 · Louis Leterrier
See the scene where the soda-factory blood contaminates a bottle and Stan Lee's cameo drinks it, and then nothing comes of it. — Blank Check
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509 Thor: The Dark World 2013 · Alan Taylor
Griffin overhypes the final fight from the opening credits. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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510 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014 · Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Pair with Avengers: Age of Ultron — Blank Check.
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The Rewatchables
Picked by The Rewatchables
Every movie The Rewatchables rewatched here, newest episode first.
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157.5 After Hours 1985 · Martin Scorsese
Categories 'most rewatchable scene': the second diner conversation with Marcy and 'surrender Dorothy'; Marcy's death with the arrow sign; the phone-number bit. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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514 Pulp Fiction 1994 · Quentin Tarantino
Pair with Inglourious Basterds — The Rewatchables.
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515 Twister 1996 · Jan de Bont
Built from an ILM proof-of-concept clip of a pickup truck, a tractor tire and a tornado, with the story figured out afterward. — The Rewatchables
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516 A Bronx Tale 1993 · Robert De Niro
The $20 rule: Sonny's advice that you can buy off a pest for 20 bucks and never think about it again. Van calls it the truest thing in the movie because he lends money. — Van Lathan, The Rewatchables
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517 This Is the End 2013 · Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
The pitch: celebrities play themselves at the apocalypse, with a demon with a 10-foot penis; the cockiest pitch ever. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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518 The Edge 1997 · Lee Tamahori
The rule of three: when three are left in a horror or action movie, the Black guy dies; Van turned down a Blumhouse cameo for it. — Van Lathan, The Rewatchables
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519 Beverly Hills Cop II 1987 · Tony Scott
A Premiere magazine piece says the script was rewritten dozens of times, finalized three weeks before production, with a 10-week shoot stretching to 20. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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520 The Player 1992 · Robert Altman
Every time Griffin Mill enters a bar, restaurant or party he is served a different brand of bottled water. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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521 Die Hard 2 1990 · Renny Harlin
Most rewatchable scene: McClane fights two guys in a restricted baggage area, a cluttered multi-room fight setup nobody does anymore. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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522 Miracle 2004 · Gavin O'Connor
Simmons listened to the Sweden game on a clock radio; the broadcast was tape delayed and he overheard the score in a grocery store. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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523 Father of the Bride 1991 · Charles Shyer
The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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152 The Color of Money 1986 · Martin Scorsese
Newman was hands-on: he effectively cast it, hired the director, and badgered Richard Price. It's Scorsese's only film to come in under schedule and under budget. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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524 What About Bob? 1991 · Frank Oz
A 10-episode remake would be hard; In Treatment is the nearest show, tracking patients over years. — Van Lathan, The Rewatchables
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312 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 · Wes Anderson
Most rewatchable scenes pick: opening character-intro montage over Hey Jude; Margot's play review; Royal meets grandkids at the Y; Eli on mescaline. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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525 Seven 1995 · David Fincher
Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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526 Fletch 1985 · Michael Ritchie
Producer rights were bought July 1976, every studio passed for 8 years, then Michael Douglas pushed it through; $8M budget, $59M gross, $24.4M in video rentals. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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527 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 · John Hughes
Bill's pick: the parking attendants' joyride in the Ferrari set to Star Wars music, one of the hardest he has ever laughed. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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528 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019 · Quentin Tarantino
Amanda's favorite scene is Brad Pitt on the roof, which she calls the lightning bottle moment for Brad Pitt season. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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529 Do the Right Thing 1989 · Spike Lee
Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. — Wesley Morris, The Rewatchables
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530 Mean Girls 2004 · Mark Waters
The reverse Vivian Award for worst clothes: wide-waistband mini skirts, kitten heels, blue eyeshadow, the party dress; the Henley top and short skirt also hated. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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531 Old School 2003 · Todd Phillips
Best quote contest: 'Blue, you're my boy!', Frank's earmuffs and 'cockballs' bit, and Mitch's 'Columbus wasn't looking for America' line. — The Rewatchables
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532 Taken 2008 · Pierre Morel
At dinner Neeson shoots Jean-Claude's wife in the arm because Jean-Claude forgot the weight of a gun (it is empty), then says relax, it's a flesh wound. — Shea Serrano, The Rewatchables
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533 Mission: Impossible 1996 · Brian De Palma
The 32-minute Prague opening act ends with a fade to black after Cruise jumps through the aquarium and escapes Kittridge. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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534 The Departed 2006 · Martin Scorsese
Casting what-ifs: Pitt (producer) was Damon's part, Liotta then Leary for Dignam, Pacino for Costello, De Niro for Sheen's part, Gibson for Baldwin's. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
The Big Picture
Picked by The Big Picture
What The Big Picture made episodes about, then what it ranked or paired, most talked about first.
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535 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 · Martin Scorsese
Fennessey says the film is the 'final boss' of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese built in the 21st century. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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536 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010 · Edgar Wright
Edgar says the film was a miracle for a major studio and that today it just would not get made. — Edgar Wright, The Big Picture
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537 A Minecraft Movie 2025 · Jared Hess
Sean sat next to a date-night couple; the guy crushed three Sam Adamses and chuckled, all while surrounded by 9-14-year-olds who did not know how to behave. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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538 Babylon 2022 · Damien Chazelle
Amanda's famous take: she likes the middle two hours best, and found the opening party a lot after the elephant. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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540 Resident Evil 2026 · Zach Cregger
At the Century City screening, Sean and Chris were put in separate rooms; they locked eyes after and both knew they had one. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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541 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022 · Ryan Coogler
Van's all-time top five: Raising Arizona, Madhouse (with John Larroquette), The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and at number one Wakanda Forever. — Van Lathan, The Big Picture
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542 The Killer 2023 · David Fincher
A visual gag: Arliss Howard, the client, wears a Sub Pop t-shirt, Adam calls it a laugh-out-loud commodification joke. — Adam Nayman, The Big Picture
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543 Mamma Mia! 2008 · Phyllida Lloyd
Sean watched Mamma Mia with Eileen and Alice in a 4:30-to-6:18 window between Lincoln and moderating a One Battle After Another event at Warner Brothers. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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544 Mulan 2020 · Niki Caro
Amanda skips the music debate by calling the Reflection ballad 'an average ass ballad about finding yourself' after eight emails about Christina Aguilera's cover. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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528 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019 · Quentin Tarantino
Amanda's favorite scene is Brad Pitt on the roof, which she calls the lightning bottle moment for Brad Pitt season. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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545 The Strangers 2008 · Bryan Bertino
Sean saw it in theaters knowing only the trailer; the hosts say it was shot in 2006-07 and sat on the shelf a year, which is how it landed in 2008. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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546 Moneyball 2011 · Bennett Miller
The film's central romantic claim: it is about math, angry people, and unflattering pants, yet becomes irresistibly sentimental. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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547 Poor Things 2023 · Yorgos Lanthimos
Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. — Todd Haynes, The Big Picture
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548 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2007 · Jake Kasdan
Adam watches the Beatles-stop-fighting-in-India excerpt on YouTube about weekly; he saw the film twice in theaters. — Adam Nayman, The Big Picture
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549 Nightmare Alley 2021 · Guillermo del Toro
Host watched it four times; first lukewarm, a soft-focused noir, he came around. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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550 Masters of the Universe 2026 · Travis Knight
A scene where He-Man's father disapproves of his son's toughness made one critic joke about the shoe business. — The Big Picture
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551 Mercy 2026 · Timur Bekmambetov
Mercy has an on-screen countdown clock of 90 minutes that nearly matches the 96-minute runtime, which the hosts call its one real innovation. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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212 No Country for Old Men 2007 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Raftery listened to the coin-toss scene with the screen off and found it even more unsettling without the actors' reactions. — Brian Raftery, The Big Picture
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552 W. 2008 · Oliver Stone
Christian Bale was originally cast as Bush and studied him for months but dropped out when makeup could not make him W. — Brian Raftery, The Big Picture
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553 All of Us Strangers 2023 · Andrew Haigh
The film closes with the Power of Love lyric Make Love Your Goal, which was also the last line of the script. — Andrew Scott, The Big Picture
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554 Mulan 1998 · Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft
Mallory saw it at age 11 in theaters with a friend and no parents, remembering Skittles and the euphoria of freedom, and says she has seen it around 25 times. — Mallory Rubin, The Big Picture
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555 Elvis 2022 · Baz Luhrmann
Amanda zoned out and missed that Elvis's mother died, and only realized the fancy house was Graceland when the film moved on; the pacing is endless yet frenetic. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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556 Brittany Runs a Marathon 2019 · Paul Downs Colaizzo
Colaizzo and his roommate stole a couch from a Broadway show after it closed, where the film's pipe dream was written. — Paul Downs Colaizzo, The Big Picture
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557 Mean Girls 2024 · Arturo Perez Jr., Samantha Jayne
The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
Everybody Brings It Up
Picked by Carter
The films that come up on more than one show, in four or more episodes: the canon the shows share.
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558 Goodfellas 1990 · Martin Scorsese
Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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559 Boogie Nights 1997 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Zach's favorite-movie coin toss is Fargo versus Boogie Nights, a year apart, from his formative film-buff years. — Zach Cregger, Blank Check
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514 Pulp Fiction 1994 · Quentin Tarantino
Pair with Inglourious Basterds — The Rewatchables.
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561 Heat 1995 · Michael Mann
Pacino's Marvin Schwarz scene is framed as a sequel to his Heat performance. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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562 Top Gun 1986 · Tony Scott
Days of Thunder is tapping the same vein as Top Gun in its afterburner. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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563 The Irishman 2019 · Martin Scorsese
De Niro's 21st-century highs include The Irishman, where he plays an interior role. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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528 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019 · Quentin Tarantino
Amanda's favorite scene is Brad Pitt on the roof, which she calls the lightning bottle moment for Brad Pitt season. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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564 Black Panther 2018 · Ryan Coogler
The sequel runs 2:41 against the original's 2:12, which Amanda reads as the film trying to do too much. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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565 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 · Martin Brest
The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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566 Titanic 1997 · James Cameron
The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set. — David Sims, Blank Check
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567 Oppenheimer 2023 · Christopher Nolan
The real joke about Oppenheimer's length was the clipboard business, not the runtime. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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568 Barbie 2023 · Greta Gerwig
Barbie sits at the top of the toy-movie heap, along with the first Lego Movie. — Griffin Newman, The Big Picture
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569 The Godfather 1972 · Francis Ford Coppola
Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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152 The Color of Money 1986 · Martin Scorsese
Newman was hands-on: he effectively cast it, hired the director, and badgered Richard Price. It's Scorsese's only film to come in under schedule and under budget. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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571 Inglourious Basterds 2009 · Quentin Tarantino
Pair with Pulp Fiction — The Rewatchables.
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572 Top Gun: Maverick 2022 · Joseph Kosinski
Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. — Chris Ryan, The Big Picture
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156 Taxi Driver 1976 · Martin Scorsese
Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy. — David Krumholtz, Blank Check
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535 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 · Martin Scorsese
Fennessey says the film is the 'final boss' of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese built in the 21st century. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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573 True Romance 1993 · Tony Scott
Weaving responded to a tone like True Romance and Bonnie and Clyde that is rarely seen now. — Samara Weaving, The Big Picture
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546 Moneyball 2011 · Bennett Miller
The film's central romantic claim: it is about math, angry people, and unflattering pants, yet becomes irresistibly sentimental. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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151 Raging Bull 1980 · Martin Scorsese
Scorsese reportedly conceived of the Raging Bull ending as a plea: I deserve to make films. The hosts call it a pat on the back and a bold meta statement. — David Krumholtz, Blank Check
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212 No Country for Old Men 2007 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Raftery listened to the coin-toss scene with the screen off and found it even more unsettling without the actors' reactions. — Brian Raftery, The Big Picture
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574 Die Hard 1988 · John McTiernan
The hero who is capable but visibly working it out is what the imitators miss; same as John McClane. — Blank Check
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575 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 · Jonathan Demme
Ed Gein had a big Hollywood footprint; Silence of the Lambs and Manhunter touched on him. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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576 Schindler's List 1993 · Steven Spielberg
On Schindler Spielberg refused to storyboard, almost as a reaction to criticism of the puppet-show control in Empire. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
Double Features
Picked by Carter
Pairs a host said to watch together, side by side; each card names its partner.
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514 Pulp Fiction 1994 · Quentin Tarantino
Pair with Inglourious Basterds — The Rewatchables.
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571 Inglourious Basterds 2009 · Quentin Tarantino
Pair with Pulp Fiction — The Rewatchables.
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578 Captain Marvel 2019 · Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Pair with Guardians of the Galaxy — Blank Check.
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510 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014 · Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Pair with Avengers: Age of Ultron — Blank Check.
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581 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 · Joss Whedon
Pair with Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Blank Check.
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203 Halloween 1978 · John Carpenter
Pair with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — The Rewatchables.
New Arrivals
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132 The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997 · Steven Spielberg Added 2026-10-14
The hosts pitch a five-minute version: Hammond tells Malcolm about the second island over lunch, Malcolm says never go there, the end. — Blank Check
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133 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 · Steven Spielberg Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Jaws — Blank Check.
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134 Empire of the Sun 1987 · Steven Spielberg Added 2026-10-14
Lean asked Spielberg to check on the rights, then lost interest and handed the novel to him. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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135 Jurassic Park 1993 · Steven Spielberg Added 2026-10-14
The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. — Blank Check
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151 Raging Bull 1980 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
Scorsese reportedly conceived of the Raging Bull ending as a plea: I deserve to make films. The hosts call it a pat on the back and a bold meta statement. — David Krumholtz, Blank Check
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152 The Color of Money 1986 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
Newman was hands-on: he effectively cast it, hired the director, and badgered Richard Price. It's Scorsese's only film to come in under schedule and under budget. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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153 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
Jamelle's Letterboxd line: fundamentalists hating it makes sense because Christ as all-encompassing love opposes the in-vogue Christ of vengeance. — Jamelle Bouie, Blank Check
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161 Dune 1984 · David Lynch Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope — Blank Check.
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162 Wild at Heart 1990 · David Lynch Added 2026-10-14
Dern deserved Oscars for her more adventurous work (Rambling Rose, Wild at Heart, Inland Empire, Jurassic Park). — The Big Picture
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164 The Elephant Man 1980 · David Lynch Added 2026-10-14
Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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201 Starman 1984 · John Carpenter Added 2026-10-14
The baby in the transformation sequence recalls the unsettling baby in Annette. — David Sims, Blank Check
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202 Escape from New York 1981 · John Carpenter Added 2026-10-14
Bill's lost-at-3am Meatpacking night felt like Escape from New York. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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203 Halloween 1978 · John Carpenter Added 2026-10-14
Pair with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — The Rewatchables.
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204 The Thing 1982 · John Carpenter Added 2026-10-14
Carpenter's rising run ended when his big-budget check flopped, and Christine was the safe follow-up. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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211 Fargo 1996 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Added 2026-10-14
An NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco as Marge aired years later; the Coens were not involved. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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212 No Country for Old Men 2007 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Added 2026-10-14
Raftery listened to the coin-toss scene with the screen off and found it even more unsettling without the actors' reactions. — Brian Raftery, The Big Picture
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213 Blood Simple 1984 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Added 2026-10-14
The Coens wrote Presnell's character from Texas businessmen they met raising money for Blood Simple. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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214 Miller's Crossing 1990 · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Added 2026-10-14
Buscemi was hired in Miller's Crossing as someone who can read dialogue fast, and the Coens wrote Fargo's Carl for him. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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411 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 · Hayao Miyazaki Added 2026-10-14
The Neon Genesis Evangelion creator started on this film, animating the God Warrior waking. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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412 The Castle of Cagliostro 1979 · Hayao Miyazaki Added 2026-10-14
Cagliostro was poorly received by fans of the series, then Miyazaki struggled to get another film made, which led to the manga and then this film. — David Sims, Blank Check
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413 Castle in the Sky 1986 · Hayao Miyazaki Added 2026-10-14
Joe Hisashi's first Miyazaki score is described as like his Castle in the Sky score: electronic and pulsating. — David Sims, Blank Check
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414 Princess Mononoke 1997 · Hayao Miyazaki Added 2026-10-14
Unlike Nausicaä, Mononoke has no real villain, so it is hard to strip the Miyazaki out; Nausicaä can be recut into heroes versus villains. — David Sims, Blank Check
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500 Long Shot 2019 · Jonathan Levine Added 2026-10-14
Long Shot opened a week after Endgame with two stars over 35, which explains its low turnout. — Chris Ryan, The Big Picture
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501 Ambulance 2022 · Michael Bay Added 2026-10-14
Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. — Chris Ryan, The Big Picture
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503 The Incredible Hulk 2008 · Louis Leterrier Added 2026-10-14
See the scene where the soda-factory blood contaminates a bottle and Stan Lee's cameo drinks it, and then nothing comes of it. — Blank Check
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505 Thor 2011 · Kenneth Branagh Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Captain America: The First Avenger — Blank Check.
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506 Captain America: The First Avenger 2011 · Joe Johnston Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Thor — Blank Check.
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509 Thor: The Dark World 2013 · Alan Taylor Added 2026-10-14
Griffin overhypes the final fight from the opening credits. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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510 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014 · Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Avengers: Age of Ultron — Blank Check.
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511 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 · James Gunn Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Captain Marvel — Blank Check.
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512 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 · Tobe Hooper Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Halloween — The Rewatchables.
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514 Pulp Fiction 1994 · Quentin Tarantino Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Inglourious Basterds — The Rewatchables.
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515 Twister 1996 · Jan de Bont Added 2026-10-14
Built from an ILM proof-of-concept clip of a pickup truck, a tractor tire and a tornado, with the story figured out afterward. — The Rewatchables
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516 A Bronx Tale 1993 · Robert De Niro Added 2026-10-14
The $20 rule: Sonny's advice that you can buy off a pest for 20 bucks and never think about it again. Van calls it the truest thing in the movie because he lends money. — Van Lathan, The Rewatchables
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517 This Is the End 2013 · Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen Added 2026-10-14
The pitch: celebrities play themselves at the apocalypse, with a demon with a 10-foot penis; the cockiest pitch ever. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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518 The Edge 1997 · Lee Tamahori Added 2026-10-14
The rule of three: when three are left in a horror or action movie, the Black guy dies; Van turned down a Blumhouse cameo for it. — Van Lathan, The Rewatchables
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519 Beverly Hills Cop II 1987 · Tony Scott Added 2026-10-14
A Premiere magazine piece says the script was rewritten dozens of times, finalized three weeks before production, with a 10-week shoot stretching to 20. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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520 The Player 1992 · Robert Altman Added 2026-10-14
Every time Griffin Mill enters a bar, restaurant or party he is served a different brand of bottled water. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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521 Die Hard 2 1990 · Renny Harlin Added 2026-10-14
Most rewatchable scene: McClane fights two guys in a restricted baggage area, a cluttered multi-room fight setup nobody does anymore. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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522 Miracle 2004 · Gavin O'Connor Added 2026-10-14
Simmons listened to the Sweden game on a clock radio; the broadcast was tape delayed and he overheard the score in a grocery store. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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523 Father of the Bride 1991 · Charles Shyer Added 2026-10-14
The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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524 What About Bob? 1991 · Frank Oz Added 2026-10-14
A 10-episode remake would be hard; In Treatment is the nearest show, tracking patients over years. — Van Lathan, The Rewatchables
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525 Seven 1995 · David Fincher Added 2026-10-14
Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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526 Fletch 1985 · Michael Ritchie Added 2026-10-14
Producer rights were bought July 1976, every studio passed for 8 years, then Michael Douglas pushed it through; $8M budget, $59M gross, $24.4M in video rentals. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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527 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 · John Hughes Added 2026-10-14
Bill's pick: the parking attendants' joyride in the Ferrari set to Star Wars music, one of the hardest he has ever laughed. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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528 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019 · Quentin Tarantino Added 2026-10-14
Amanda's favorite scene is Brad Pitt on the roof, which she calls the lightning bottle moment for Brad Pitt season. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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529 Do the Right Thing 1989 · Spike Lee Added 2026-10-14
Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. — Wesley Morris, The Rewatchables
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530 Mean Girls 2004 · Mark Waters Added 2026-10-14
The reverse Vivian Award for worst clothes: wide-waistband mini skirts, kitten heels, blue eyeshadow, the party dress; the Henley top and short skirt also hated. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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531 Old School 2003 · Todd Phillips Added 2026-10-14
Best quote contest: 'Blue, you're my boy!', Frank's earmuffs and 'cockballs' bit, and Mitch's 'Columbus wasn't looking for America' line. — The Rewatchables
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532 Taken 2008 · Pierre Morel Added 2026-10-14
At dinner Neeson shoots Jean-Claude's wife in the arm because Jean-Claude forgot the weight of a gun (it is empty), then says relax, it's a flesh wound. — Shea Serrano, The Rewatchables
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533 Mission: Impossible 1996 · Brian De Palma Added 2026-10-14
The 32-minute Prague opening act ends with a fade to black after Cruise jumps through the aquarium and escapes Kittridge. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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534 The Departed 2006 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
Casting what-ifs: Pitt (producer) was Damon's part, Liotta then Leary for Dignam, Pacino for Costello, De Niro for Sheen's part, Gibson for Baldwin's. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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535 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
Fennessey says the film is the 'final boss' of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese built in the 21st century. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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536 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010 · Edgar Wright Added 2026-10-14
Edgar says the film was a miracle for a major studio and that today it just would not get made. — Edgar Wright, The Big Picture
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537 A Minecraft Movie 2025 · Jared Hess Added 2026-10-14
Sean sat next to a date-night couple; the guy crushed three Sam Adamses and chuckled, all while surrounded by 9-14-year-olds who did not know how to behave. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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538 Babylon 2022 · Damien Chazelle Added 2026-10-14
Amanda's famous take: she likes the middle two hours best, and found the opening party a lot after the elephant. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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539 Killers of the Flower Moon 2023 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Silence — The Big Picture.
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540 Resident Evil 2026 · Zach Cregger Added 2026-10-14
At the Century City screening, Sean and Chris were put in separate rooms; they locked eyes after and both knew they had one. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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541 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022 · Ryan Coogler Added 2026-10-14
Van's all-time top five: Raising Arizona, Madhouse (with John Larroquette), The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and at number one Wakanda Forever. — Van Lathan, The Big Picture
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542 The Killer 2023 · David Fincher Added 2026-10-14
A visual gag: Arliss Howard, the client, wears a Sub Pop t-shirt, Adam calls it a laugh-out-loud commodification joke. — Adam Nayman, The Big Picture
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543 Mamma Mia! 2008 · Phyllida Lloyd Added 2026-10-14
Sean watched Mamma Mia with Eileen and Alice in a 4:30-to-6:18 window between Lincoln and moderating a One Battle After Another event at Warner Brothers. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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544 Mulan 2020 · Niki Caro Added 2026-10-14
Amanda skips the music debate by calling the Reflection ballad 'an average ass ballad about finding yourself' after eight emails about Christina Aguilera's cover. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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545 The Strangers 2008 · Bryan Bertino Added 2026-10-14
Sean saw it in theaters knowing only the trailer; the hosts say it was shot in 2006-07 and sat on the shelf a year, which is how it landed in 2008. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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546 Moneyball 2011 · Bennett Miller Added 2026-10-14
The film's central romantic claim: it is about math, angry people, and unflattering pants, yet becomes irresistibly sentimental. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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547 Poor Things 2023 · Yorgos Lanthimos Added 2026-10-14
Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. — Todd Haynes, The Big Picture
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548 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2007 · Jake Kasdan Added 2026-10-14
Adam watches the Beatles-stop-fighting-in-India excerpt on YouTube about weekly; he saw the film twice in theaters. — Adam Nayman, The Big Picture
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549 Nightmare Alley 2021 · Guillermo del Toro Added 2026-10-14
Host watched it four times; first lukewarm, a soft-focused noir, he came around. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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550 Masters of the Universe 2026 · Travis Knight Added 2026-10-14
A scene where He-Man's father disapproves of his son's toughness made one critic joke about the shoe business. — The Big Picture
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551 Mercy 2026 · Timur Bekmambetov Added 2026-10-14
Mercy has an on-screen countdown clock of 90 minutes that nearly matches the 96-minute runtime, which the hosts call its one real innovation. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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552 W. 2008 · Oliver Stone Added 2026-10-14
Christian Bale was originally cast as Bush and studied him for months but dropped out when makeup could not make him W. — Brian Raftery, The Big Picture
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553 All of Us Strangers 2023 · Andrew Haigh Added 2026-10-14
The film closes with the Power of Love lyric Make Love Your Goal, which was also the last line of the script. — Andrew Scott, The Big Picture
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554 Mulan 1998 · Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft Added 2026-10-14
Mallory saw it at age 11 in theaters with a friend and no parents, remembering Skittles and the euphoria of freedom, and says she has seen it around 25 times. — Mallory Rubin, The Big Picture
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555 Elvis 2022 · Baz Luhrmann Added 2026-10-14
Amanda zoned out and missed that Elvis's mother died, and only realized the fancy house was Graceland when the film moved on; the pacing is endless yet frenetic. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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556 Brittany Runs a Marathon 2019 · Paul Downs Colaizzo Added 2026-10-14
Colaizzo and his roommate stole a couch from a Broadway show after it closed, where the film's pipe dream was written. — Paul Downs Colaizzo, The Big Picture
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557 Mean Girls 2024 · Arturo Perez Jr., Samantha Jayne Added 2026-10-14
The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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558 Goodfellas 1990 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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559 Boogie Nights 1997 · Paul Thomas Anderson Added 2026-10-14
Zach's favorite-movie coin toss is Fargo versus Boogie Nights, a year apart, from his formative film-buff years. — Zach Cregger, Blank Check
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560 Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope 1977 · George Lucas Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Dune — Blank Check.
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561 Heat 1995 · Michael Mann Added 2026-10-14
Pacino's Marvin Schwarz scene is framed as a sequel to his Heat performance. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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562 Top Gun 1986 · Tony Scott Added 2026-10-14
Days of Thunder is tapping the same vein as Top Gun in its afterburner. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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563 The Irishman 2019 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
De Niro's 21st-century highs include The Irishman, where he plays an interior role. — Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture
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564 Black Panther 2018 · Ryan Coogler Added 2026-10-14
The sequel runs 2:41 against the original's 2:12, which Amanda reads as the film trying to do too much. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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565 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 · Martin Brest Added 2026-10-14
The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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566 Titanic 1997 · James Cameron Added 2026-10-14
The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set. — David Sims, Blank Check
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567 Oppenheimer 2023 · Christopher Nolan Added 2026-10-14
The real joke about Oppenheimer's length was the clipboard business, not the runtime. — Amanda Dobbins, The Big Picture
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568 Barbie 2023 · Greta Gerwig Added 2026-10-14
Barbie sits at the top of the toy-movie heap, along with the first Lego Movie. — Griffin Newman, The Big Picture
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569 The Godfather 1972 · Francis Ford Coppola Added 2026-10-14
Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables
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570 Back to the Future 1985 · Robert Zemeckis Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Teen Wolf — Blank Check.
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571 Inglourious Basterds 2009 · Quentin Tarantino Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Pulp Fiction — The Rewatchables.
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572 Top Gun: Maverick 2022 · Joseph Kosinski Added 2026-10-14
Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. — Chris Ryan, The Big Picture
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573 True Romance 1993 · Tony Scott Added 2026-10-14
Weaving responded to a tone like True Romance and Bonnie and Clyde that is rarely seen now. — Samara Weaving, The Big Picture
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574 Die Hard 1988 · John McTiernan Added 2026-10-14
The hero who is capable but visibly working it out is what the imitators miss; same as John McClane. — Blank Check
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575 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 · Jonathan Demme Added 2026-10-14
Ed Gein had a big Hollywood footprint; Silence of the Lambs and Manhunter touched on him. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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576 Schindler's List 1993 · Steven Spielberg Added 2026-10-14
On Schindler Spielberg refused to storyboard, almost as a reaction to criticism of the puppet-show control in Empire. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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577 Silence 2016 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Killers of the Flower Moon — The Big Picture.
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578 Captain Marvel 2019 · Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Guardians of the Galaxy — Blank Check.
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579 Citizen Kane 1941 · Orson Welles Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Casablanca — The Big Picture.
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580 Casablanca 1942 · Michael Curtiz Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Citizen Kane — The Big Picture.
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581 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 · Joss Whedon Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Blank Check.
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582 Teen Wolf 1985 · Rod Daniel Added 2026-10-14
Pair with Back to the Future — Blank Check.
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583 Bright Lights, Big City 1988 · James Bridges Added 2026-10-14
Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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584 Into the Night 1985 · John Landis Added 2026-10-14
Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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601 Fearless 1993 · Peter Weir Added 2026-10-14
Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. — David Sims, Blank Check
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602 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 · Peter Weir Added 2026-10-14
David states it is one of his ten favorites and Griffin says he texted it was the best movie ever made; David jokes he should have put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. — David Sims, Blank Check
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603 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 · Peter Weir Added 2026-10-14
Boyd shot Picnic, Last Wave, Gallipoli and Year of Living Dangerously for Weir; he and Weir reunited by chance on an airplane for this film. — Blank Check
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604 Witness 1985 · Peter Weir Added 2026-10-14
Year of Living Dangerously got Weir into Hollywood; Witness is the guarantor of his Hollywood run. — David Sims, Blank Check
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611 Look Who's Talking 1989 · Amy Heckerling Added 2026-10-14
The scene where the baby gets high from his mom's Demerol, and the speakers note epidurals would be the era-correct treatment. — Hillary Busis, Blank Check
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612 Clueless 1995 · Amy Heckerling Added 2026-10-14
Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. — Amanda Dobbins, The Rewatchables
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613 National Lampoon's European Vacation 1985 · Amy Heckerling Added 2026-10-14
Heckerling had a miserable experience; Chase is said to be hard on collaborators. — Blank Check
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614 Johnny Dangerously 1984 · Amy Heckerling Added 2026-10-14
Heckerling came off two disappointments, Johnny Dangerously and European Vacation, and needed a can't-miss hit. — Blank Check
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621 Star 80 1983 · Bob Fosse Added 2026-10-14
Fosse had his location scout break into the real murder house without a permit to recreate the carpet and details. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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622 All That Jazz 1979 · Bob Fosse Added 2026-10-14
Star 80 came about because Fosse had no planned follow-up after surviving the film in which he dies. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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623 Cabaret 1972 · Bob Fosse Added 2026-10-14
Fosse shot Sally Bowles walking onstage in a medium shot from the back, trusting his lead. — Julie Klausner, Blank Check
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624 Lenny 1974 · Bob Fosse Added 2026-10-14
Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice. — Blank Check
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631 The Judge 2014 · David Dobkin Added 2026-10-14
The shower scene: Downey hoses a soiled Duvall down with a handheld shower head, and the only shot they can't forget is the stained legs and the drain. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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633 Shanghai Knights 2003 · David Dobkin Added 2026-10-14
Dobkin directed Knights, a catastrophe next to the masterpiece Noon. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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634 Wedding Crashers 2005 · David Dobkin Added 2026-10-14
Both open with a wedding; Bill calls it his open-your-movie-with-a-wedding theory. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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641 Wendell and Wild 2022 · Henry Selick Added 2026-10-14
Griffin and Ben saw it at the Quad in a nearly empty theater and walked out invigorated about its social commentary. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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642 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 · Henry Selick Added 2026-10-14
Nightmare has one major objective everyone is on; Wendell & Wild is just so much plot. — David Sims, Blank Check
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643 James and the Giant Peach 1996 · Henry Selick Added 2026-10-14
Peach is ranked third over Wendell & Wild because it is more straightforward and rewatchable. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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644 Coraline 2009 · Henry Selick Added 2026-10-14
Coraline was made with Laika hands-off, and it is his best film, so maybe studio notes are not needed. — David Sims, Blank Check
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651 As Good as It Gets 1997 · James L. Brooks Added 2026-10-14
Maya Rudolph appears as a cop in her first film role. — Blank Check
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652 Terms of Endearment 1983 · James L. Brooks Added 2026-10-14
Brooks had already worked with Nicholson on Terms of Endearment, where he won an Oscar. — Blank Check
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653 Broadcast News 1987 · James L. Brooks Added 2026-10-14
Nicholson also pops off in Broadcast News, another Brooks film. — Blank Check
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654 I'll Do Anything 1994 · James L. Brooks Added 2026-10-14
After the disaster of I'll Do Anything, Brooks needed to get his groove back, and As Good as It Gets did it. — Blank Check
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661 An Angel at My Table 1990 · Jane Campion Added 2026-10-14
Dana's favorite shot is an 8 to 9 second silent shot of Janet staring at a piece of chalk as she freezes while teaching. — Dana Stevens, Blank Check
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662 Sweetie 1989 · Jane Campion Added 2026-10-14
Frame approved the adaptation before Sweetie was made; Campion used early festival heat for a weird small comedy first. — David Sims, Blank Check
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663 The Piano 1993 · Jane Campion Added 2026-10-14
Dana thinks the score is overused and imposing, a major problem for her. — Dana Stevens, Blank Check
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664 Bright Star 2009 · Jane Campion Added 2026-10-14
Fox, the lead here, returns in Bright Star as Fanny's mother, which feels deliberate and twins the two films. — David Sims, Blank Check
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671 Ricki and the Flash 2015 · Jonathan Demme Added 2026-10-14
The bar-band casting problem: Bobby and Lindsey's old dive-bar KJ felt like a real regular; Streep as a bar-band singer never reads as a plausible mediocre singer. — Bobby Finger, Blank Check
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672 Rachel Getting Married 2008 · Jonathan Demme Added 2026-10-14
The dad in Rachel Getting Married, and the kitchen meltdown scene, is amazing but intense in the opposite way. — Bill Simmons, The Rewatchables
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673 Stop Making Sense 1984 · Jonathan Demme Added 2026-10-14
Worrell, in Ricki's band, was from Parliament-Funkadelic and sometimes a Talking Heads member in Stop Making Sense. — Blank Check
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674 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 · Jonathan Demme Added 2026-10-14
Demme worked with Streep on The Manchurian Candidate, so they had an existing relationship. — Blank Check
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681 Lady in the Water 2006 · M. Night Shyamalan Added 2026-10-14
Other kids at Griffin's NYU summer program saw it and came back to the cafeteria yelling snarf, snarf, snarf, mocking the film. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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682 The Village 2004 · M. Night Shyamalan Added 2026-10-14
The Village was the first real backlash, and Lady in the Water is cast as the film that dynamited his career. — Richard Lawson, Blank Check
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683 Signs 2002 · M. Night Shyamalan Added 2026-10-14
Both end abruptly on one image after someone heals a body through prayer or love, with only a token time jump. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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684 Unbreakable 2000 · M. Night Shyamalan Added 2026-10-14
Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. — Blank Check
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691 Decision to Leave 2022 · Park Chan-wook Added 2026-10-14
Subtitle translator trivia: the Google-translated line bring me the heart of that detective became bring me the head, since English lacks a word for metaphorical heart. — Tatiana Maslany, Blank Check
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692 The Handmaiden 2016 · Park Chan-wook Added 2026-10-14
Decision to Leave is more restrained than The Handmaiden but still has wild camera moves. — David Sims, Blank Check
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694 Stoker 2013 · Park Chan-wook Added 2026-10-14
Stoker was Park's only American film and he took someone else's script; Decision to Leave is the first fully original thing after a run of adaptations. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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701 Flesh and Blood 1985 · Paul Verhoeven Added 2026-10-14
The opening is the maximalist first 20 seconds: a tracking shot of mercenaries and a nine-months pregnant beer server. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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704 Spetters 1980 · Paul Verhoeven Added 2026-10-14
Spetters is like his Loveless, about aimless bikers. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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711 Planet of the Apes 2001 · Tim Burton Added 2026-10-14
Apes action figures: Griffin owned all of them except Estella Warren; Pericles reportedly had one. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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712 Ed Wood 1994 · Tim Burton Added 2026-10-14
One commenter argued Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns say everything Burton has to say; after that he took what was offered. — Griffin Newman, Blank Check
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714 Batman Returns 1992 · Tim Burton Added 2026-10-14
Coogler could make his own Batman Returns-style odd, personal sequel. — Blank Check
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157.5 After Hours 1985 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-09-19
Categories 'most rewatchable scene': the second diner conversation with Marcy and 'surrender Dorothy'; Marcy's death with the arrow sign; the phone-number bit. — Sean Fennessey, The Rewatchables
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131 Jaws 1975 · Steven Spielberg Added 2026-09-01
Pair with Raiders of the Lost Ark — Blank Check.
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156 Taxi Driver 1976 · Martin Scorsese Added 2026-09-01
Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy. — David Krumholtz, Blank Check
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312 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 · Wes Anderson Added 2026-09-01
Most rewatchable scenes pick: opening character-intro montage over Hey Jude; Margot's play review; Royal meets grandkids at the Y; Eli on mescaline. — Chris Ryan, The Rewatchables